Old Friends
I’m looking through my dad’s address book. It’s got a worn green leather cover, and is bulging at the seams with stuff he inserted. He obviously copied some items over from an earlier book, but also...
View ArticleTravancore Sisters Forever
As I have mentioned, our next-door neighbors, Lalitha, Padmini, and Ragini, were in and out of our house in Chennai a lot. Left to right: Lalitha, Ragini, Padmini Lalitha and Ragini, alas, died way too...
View ArticleRagini, the youngest Travancore Sister
Some of the traffic to my blog comes from people searching online for pictures of the three Travancore sisters, my family’s movie star neighbors in Chennai. Queries come from India, but also from the...
View ArticleLalitha of the Travancore Sisters
We were the new kids on the block in 1953, the block being Edward Elliot Rd (now Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai) and the city being Madras (now Chennai.) It could have been a difficult adjustment–but instead,...
View ArticleRagini and Padmini–in Studio and Garden
Hello, all. Here are some more Travancore Sisters pics from my parents’ photo albums. A formal portrait of Ragini and Padmini: A couple more of Ragini: The three informal snaps below are faded and...
View ArticleFashion Notes
A few quick fashion notes about the color coordination you see in Indian women’s dress. These ladies are impeccably pulled together: A mom in elegant monochrome: The sandstone-colored outfits on the...
View ArticleSukumari, a Great Lady of Indian Cinema
This week brought the sad news of the death of South Indian actress Sukumari, whose career spanned over six decades. An accident resulting in severe burns led to heart failure on Tuesday, March 26, in...
View ArticlePadmini in New York
Some time in the early 1970s, my parents met up in New York City with their friend Padmini, her husband, Dr. Ramachandran, and their son. As you may remember, Padmini (1932-2006) was the middle sister...
View ArticleTravancore Sisters in Color
Here are some color photos of India’s Travancore Sisters, snapped long ago by my family’s friend George E Miller II. Thanks very much to his son George E Miller III for digitizing them and sending them...
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Spain and Bollywood–a Marriage Made in Heaven
One of my favorite Hindi movies is the 2011 blockbuster Zindagi na Milegi Dobara (Life Doesn’t Come Twice.) It’s the story of three bachelors taking a road trip through Spain, just before one of them...
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